Name: Rus Like Everyone Else: A Novel
SKU: 51876142
Author: Bette Adriaanse
ISBN: 9781939419538

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Libro Físico

Editorial

The Unnamed Press

Autor

Bette Adriaanse

Año

2015

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N° páginas

274

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781939419538

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Ficción: general y literaria

Rus Like Everyone Else: A Novel

Bette Adriaanse (Autor) · The Unnamed Press · Tapa Blanda

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Rus is a creature of habit. His mother left him an apartment and a debit card, from which he withdraws money everyday to purchase a drink at Starbucks. Until Rus is told by a government agency that his apartment is illegal and that he owes taxes. Lots of taxes. Rus panics and his cash is stolen by a smooth talking Russian submarine captain.Meanwhile, as Rus capitulates to the demands of society and finds an office job with the help of a micro-managing new girlfriend, the neighborhood's local postal worker surveys the lives of its other residents with an omniscient eye: Mrs. Blue compulsively steals hand creams; a secretary struggles to make conversation (much less human connections); a delivery man desperately seeks to make a name for himself but struggles with his immigrant status; and an aging bachelor, hampered by extreme paranoia, will finally have the chance to meet the Queen (if he can just hold it together long enough).With Rus at the head of this lonely ensemble's search for meaning in a complicated and alienating world, debut novelist Adriaanse weaves together intersecting lives to create a mini-epic, one that charts a hidden resistance to corporate sameness and artificial relationships.